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Where is wheat?
Wheat is one of the most common allergenic food. If your baby has a wheat allergy and must follow a wheat free diet, he must avoid the following foods that contain wheat:
Cereal and grain products | Pasta, noodles, rye bread, semolina, croutons, breakfast cereal | Meat, fish, poultry and alternatives | BBQ chicken seasoning, meat and fish pastes, some processed meats | Confectionery and sweet dishes | Some chocolate, some ice blocks, ice cream cones, liquorice, chewing gum, marshmallows, many lollies (e.g. jubes, toffees) | Sauces, soups and dressings | Many sauces, most gravies, commercial casserole bases and simmer sauces, stock powder and liquid, soup mixes,
cup-a-soup, thickened soups, soups with noodles or pasta | Baked goods | Most baked products such as beads (e.g. yeast, sourdough, flat, chapati) biscuits, pastries, cakes, crumpets, muffins, fruit pies (including the filling) | Miscellaneous | Battered food, some canned foods, chips, crisps and potato wedges, some custard powders, pancakes, stock powder and liquid, thickeners of wheat origin (additives numbers 1400 - 1450), playdough, yeast extract spreads (e.g. vegemite) |
Remember that the 2/3rd of babies with an allergy to wheat potentially also react to rye and may react to all sources of gluten, as barley, oats, triticale. If your child has a wheat allergy, you should discuss the introduction of these foods with your child’s doctor or dietitian. The following ingredients are or may contain wheat
- Atta
- Bread flour
- Cake flour
- Cereal extracts
- Dextrin (of wheat origin)
- Enriched flour
- Glucose syrup*
- Kamut
- Leche alim
- Multigrain breads
- Plain and self-raising
- Semolina
- Spelt
- Thickeners derived from Wheat (1400 to 1450)**
- Wheat breads (all types)
- Wheat flakes
- Wheat meal
- Wheat starch
- Whole meal flour
(plain and self-raising)
| - Bal ahar
- Bread mixes
- Cake, muffin and biscuit
- Cous cous
- Dextrose*
- Farina flour
- Gluten
- Kibbled wheat
- Maltodextrin
(of wheat origin) - Multigrain flours
- Flour
- Shredded wheat
- Starch (unspecified)
- Triticale
- Wheat cornflour
- Wheat germ
- Wheat pasta
- Wheat tempeh
- Whole wheat flour
(plain and self-raising)
| - Bread crumbs
- Bulgar
- Mix
- Cracked wheat
- Durum flour
- Glucose*
- High protein flour
- Laubina
- Minchin
- Playdough
- Puffed wheat
- Soft wheat flour
- Superamine
- Wheat bran
- Wheaten cornflour
- Wheat gluten
- Wheat protein powder
- White flour
(plain and self-raising)
| * Sugars such as glucose, glucose syrup, dextrose, even if derived from wheat, rarely cause a reaction in children with a wheat allergy.
** Special care may be needed when purchasing a product containing thickeners derived from wheat (1400 to 1450). |
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